Dave Methvin answered this question back in October and then again in February:

http://www.nabble.com/Re%3A-highlight-table-column-on-hover- p7074977.html

Hope that helps.


--Karl
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On Mar 12, 2007, at 3:40 PM, Daemach wrote:


So on the selector question, is there any jQuery selector that would enable
me to limit the "search" to a single table column?


Daemach wrote:

In my ongoing quest to master jQuery I had an itch to write a table
filtering mechanism. I'm going for speed and elegance here so I want this to work fast enough to bind to a keyup event without bogging down even on long tables. Using DOM coding if I wanted to search the 3rd column only I
would loop over oTable.rows[i].cells[2] to find the values.  jQuery's
selectors are pretty generalized, so I'm wondering if there is a jQuery
selector that is equally efficient.

$("td:nth-child(3)", "#mytbody#") perhaps? Some kind of xpath expression?

If I had a text field in the table header row, what would be the easiest
way to figure out what column it was in so I could pass that to the
selector?


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